Cancun trip and late Halloween

Hi all. Yes, it's been a while. I can't believe it'll be December on Tuesday already. I was already trying to write '12' when I was dating my chart entries on Friday, so I guess I'm ready. November went by way too fast. Luckily we have most of our Christmas gifts taken care of and half of them are even wrapped! We also spent the day decorating the inside and outside of the house. We had a guest this morning, Mr. Eli Banks, so he and Taya "helped" but mostly stayed out of trouble. :)

Our trip to Mexico was fun but hard. It was my first time away from Taya and I did it cold turkey, to another country. Taya had a great time with Grammy! We stayed at the Hilton resort, where Ethan's conference was, and took a tour to the Mayan ruins, Chichen Itza, on our last full day there.

To cut this short, I will label the pictures (which are not in chronological order) and hope that suffices.
Happy Holiday season!


A building at Chichen Itza
The observatory

Temple of the Warriors

A temple at the game field

The main temple on the site

Another view with me :) I hope you like my hat!

A sink hole on the way to the ruins. These are apparently very common in the Yucatan.

The view out of our room...

A carmel apple pie our friend, Jennifer Endres, made for Halloween. She has a little one but still makes time to bake goodies. Thanks Jennifer!

Family photo op on Halloween

A better picture of the little monkey, Eli Banks. He was an adorable monkey. It was perfect!

Me with two bugs...Layla Endres (ladybug) and Taya (my little bee)

Layla stopped to trick or treat and drop off that yummy pie.